Monday, June 19, 2017

Schumer asks for more funding for opioid enforcement

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for federal help in the fight against opioid addiction in New York.

Schumer is asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to provide the state with one of four special heroin enforcement teams being formed to combat the problem. The four teams are specifically dedicated to counteracting heroin trafficking and are sent to states that report heroin as the highest drug threat.

The Democrat says New York's heroin overdose death rate increased by 30 percent in 2015. New data show there was an average of four overdose deaths a day in New York City alone last year. That was double the rate two years earlier. New York City also is a major distribution hub.

Overall, 24 New York counties are considered High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas.

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More funding, more funding, more funding... How about doing your job as a legislator to pressure the AMA to tell their physicians to stop prescribing percocet and oxycontin for every toothache like candy and the FDA to start investigating the drug companies that knowingly or negligently withheld information or misled the public on the addictive qualities of opioids while pushing them?

This whole story is ridiculous and obscene. Because some mutant entitled kid in the suburbs had chosen to use pain medications as a recreational drug, people who really actually use them the way they were intended to be used can't get them because doctors are frightened to prescribe them is a disgrace. Painkiller drugs used properly are a gift from god and proof that he wants you to be happy.

>How about doing your job as a legislator to pressure the AMA to tell their physicians to stop prescribing percocet and oxycontin for every toothache like candy

That's bullshit. Doctors have been thrown in jail for the last decade and a half for giving their patients effective pain relief - it's nearly impossible to get a script for opiates when you legitimately need them.

Meanwhile, actual drug seekers are turning to heroin because it's easier to get off a drug dealer then getting a prescription for something safer from a doctor.

Because, it takes a seasoned, hustling con to EXTERMINATE a con! Hey, Shithead Chuck-Wagon: Why don't you fade away to oblivion where you rightfully belong? New York City is ALREADY infected with WAAAAAY too many public SCOURGES that now devalue honesty itself! JUST GO AWAY, ALREADY, PULEEEEEZE!

the AMA has labeled addiction as a disease so like everything else ITS NOT YOUR FAULT that you stick needles in your arms but it's the only disease that you can cure without surgery or medication the only disease that you can cure with a strong mindset and wishing it awaypoliticians don't want to fix the drug problem- only control itschmuk schumer is upset with every overdose death that's another vote lost

Doctors have been thrown in jail for the last decade and a half for giving their patients effective pain relief - it's nearly impossible to get a script for opiates when you legitimately need them

Bull. The data flat out contradicts you. Legal opioid prescriptions are WAY UP. We have created a culture that expects every minor medical pain to be narcotized away, even though surgical and other techniques have greatly reduced trauma and shortened healing time, with drugs whose dangers have been consistently downplayed. The AMA deserve's some share in the blame for normalizing or at least not preaching greater vigilance among the doctors whose patients trust them.

So many of you have some dangerous misconceptions about addiction and how it affects people and affects the mind. It is truly a tragic dependency. Yes, maybe it was caused by bad choices, but so are many of other kinds of illnesses, such as serious sexually transmitted ones. That doesn't change the fact that people are dying at an increased rate, even in our own neighborhoods. So ANY attempts at improving our chances at beating this epidemic should be applauded on both sides of the aisle. This funding would help go to enforcement of the DEA to stop the illegal sales of opioids. At a lecture held by Preet Bharara last fall, he said the DEA's priority will be to target all kinds of dealers, and that the hammer of the law will fall harder on those whose sales have caused an overdose. So for the sake of the people dying in our communities, stop this nonsensical partisan condemnation of a step closer to a solution, support this move to equip our drug enforcers, and most of all stop stigmatizing addiction so that those who need help can feel comfortable doing so. No person deserves to live as a slave to opioids.

Schumer's name was not listed in Times-Ledger as being present @ Little-Neck Douglaston Memorial day parade.I guess he did not want another confrontation with a Korean War Navy Vet protesting his campaign name signs ,that he has his staff march with, against parade rules.

> How about 99% of doctors surveyed admit prescribing opioids longer than the CDC recommends?

According to your link, the CDC recommends a three-day period of opioids. If you've ever been injured, you'd know that such a short time is not only unrealistic, but outright sadistic. What do 99% of doctors know that you don't? Leave the nobility of suffering for the saints; the rest of us don't want to heal in agony.

The rest of your links are about pharmaceutical marketing practices, about which I know little and have not commented on.

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